Man&#39;s suit form extender



Jan. 20, 1948. G. TANZYER MAN'S SUIT FORM EXTENDER Filed March 21, 1946 JNVEN TOR. George Tanzer Hume Mau A T- TOR/VE Y5 Patented Jan. 20, 1948 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MANS SUIT FORM EXTENDER George Tanzer, Everett, Mass.

Application March 21, 1946, Serial No. 656,088

3 Claims. 1

This invention relates to suit forms such as are used for displaying men's suits, and especially inens suit jackets, in store windows and display rooms, and it has for its general object to provide an attachment for a suit form by which the latter may be given an effective length corresponding to that of the jacket which is to be displayed thereon.

The suit forms which are commonly used for displaying mens jackets are always somewhat shorter than the garment to be displayed so that when the jacket is on the form the latter will not be visible below the bottom edge of the jacket.

In obtaining a satisfactory display of a jacket, the latter is draped on the form in the desired manner, and the desired efiect is maintaining by pinning the jacket to the fabric cover of the form at various points.

If the jacket extends any appreciable distance below the bottom of the form, a satisfactory display effect cannot always be obtained because there is nothing to hold the lower projecting edge of the jacket in any desired position.

As stated above, one object of the present invention is to provide an extender which is adapted to be used in connection with a suit form, and which can be adjusted so as to provide the desirable support for the portion of the jacket projecting below the suit form to enable the display artist to secure and maintain the desired display efiect of the jacket on the form.

In order to give an understanding of the invention, I have illustrated in the drawings a selected embodiment thereof, which will now be described, after which the novel features will be pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a view of the suit form extender.

Fig. 2 is a view of a suit form having the extender applied thereto in the manner in which it would be used when displaying the jacket of a double-breasted suit.

Fig. 3 is a similar view of the extender applied to the dress form in the manner in which it would be used when the jacket of a single-breasted suit is being displayed.

In the drawings, I indicates a suit form which may have any suitable or usual construction and which is illustrated as supported by a pedestal 2. Suit forms of this type are usually cut away at the front near the bottom as indicated at 3, so that when a single-breasted suit jacket is being displayed on the form, the latter will present an open side at its lower end to conicide with the cut away shape of the single-breasted jacket below the button.

When a double-breasted jacket is being displayed on the form, the opening in front is somewhat of a detriment because the absence of a proper support for the lower portion of the jacket at the front sometimes interferes with obtaining a proper display efiect of the suit on the form. Moreover, as stated above, if the jacket of the suit which is to be displayed on the form is longer than the form by any appreciable amount, the portion of the jacket which projects below the form will be unsupported and this will also make it difficult to secure the proper display effect of the suit on the form. 7

To overcome these difficulties, I have provided herein a suit form extender which can be adjustably secured to the lower portion of the form l and by which the effective length of the form can be adjusted to fit the particular jacket being displayed thereon.

A suit form extender embodying my invention is illustrated in Fig. 1 and is indicated at 4. The extender is made of some stiff but flexible material such, for instance, as plastic material or cardboard or even stiff canvas. The extender herein illustrated is made in three sections, a central section 5, and two end sections 6 and l. The sections 6 and I are connected to the central section by means of elastic strips 8 which are in the nature of inserts, these strips being constructed so that they are able to stretch transversely.

The top, bottom, and outside edge of each end section 6 and 1 is provided with a binding 9 of felt, cloth, or other material to which the garment being displayed can be pinned, and the top and bottom edges of the central section 5 are also similarly provided with a binding Ill.

The elastic insert 8 may be secured to the sections 5, 6, and I in any approved way, as by means of stitching II or by means of a suitable adhesive. The extender is also provided with some suitable means for adjustably and detachably securing it to the suit form. Any acceptable means for this purpose may be employed. but I have herein shown tie strings l2 by which the extender can be tied to the form.

In using the extender, it will be wrapped around the lower portion of the suit form I and adjusted vertically on the form so that the lower edge of the extender will coincide with the lower edge of the jacket which is to be displayed, the

extender being held to the form by tying the tie strings 12 together.

If a double-breasted jacket is to be displayed, then the extender will be applied to the form with the central section 5 in front as shown in Fig. 2, and with the tie strings l2 tied together in the back. With this arrangement, the central section covers or closes the opening 3 in the front of the form and makes a solid support for the front of the double-breasted jacket.

As stated above, the extender will be mounted on the dress form so that the lower edge thereof will coincide with the lower edge of the jacket,

f; and after the latter has been placed on the form, then the display artist arranges it to secure the desired display efiect, and such effect is maintained by pinning the garment to the form at various points and also pinning the lower por tion of the garment to the binding 9 along the lower edge of the extender.

If a single-breasted jacket is to be displayed on i the form, then the extender will be applied to the form with the central section in the back and with the end sections 6 and I at the front but spaced from each other as shown in Fig. 3. This will leave the necessary opening at the front so that neither the form I nor the extender will be visible at the lower portion of the front of the single-breasted jacket below the buttons. Since the extender, however, extends clear to the bottom of the garment, it is possible for the drape artist to pin the bottom thereof to the binding 9,

10 at the bottom of the extender to maintain the cured to and connecting the adjacent vertical 2* edges of adjacent sections, each elastic strip also extending from the bottom edge of the extender to the top edge thereof, a pin-receiving binding ap 'plied to the exposed edges of said sections and to which the garment tobe displayed on the form may be pinned, and 'means'to hold the extender in 'an'adjusted position-encircling the lower portion of a mans suit "form. I

2. A suit form extender adapted to be applied to the lower portion of a manssuit form for increasing the efiective length of the form, said extender presenting three sections ofrelatively stiff 'but flexible materiaLsaid sections constituting a central section'and two end sections each 'extending from the bottom to the top edge of the extender, a vertically extending strip of elastic material interposed between each end section and the central section and secured to the adjacent vertical edgesof both sections, each strip being stretchable transversely, a pin-receiving binding applied to the exposed edges of the sections and to which the garment to be displayed may be pinned, and means for securing the extender to the lower portion of a mans suit form in encircling relation thereto.

3. A suit form extender adapted to be applied to the lower portion of a mans suit form for increasing the effective length of the form, said extender presenting a plurality of sections of relatively stiff but flexible sheet material each of which sections extends from the bottom edge to the top edge of the extender, an elastic strip secured to and connecting the adjacent vertical edgesof adjacent sections, each elastic strip also extending from the bottom edge of the extender to the top edge thereof, a pin-receiving binding applied to the exposed edges of said sections and to which the garment to be displayed on the form may be pinned, and means to hold the extender in an adjusted position encircling the lower portion of a mans suit form, the dimension of the extender from one vertical end edge to the other being less than :the circumferential dimension of the form to which itis to be applied, whereby when the extender is in 'use, said vertical end edges will-be spaced from each other throughout their length. I

GEORGE TANZER.

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